Clear Sky Chart
Sponsors
Sponsors are remarkably wise and kind people who have contributed money to help defray the costs of generating clear sky charts from CMC data. They have my deepest thanks:
| Winer Observatory |
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| Joseph Trerotola | Anonymous | ||
| Dr. John Sohl | Kaushik Iyer | Justin Bailo | ||
| Kok Chen | Michael Rudy | Jane Houston Jones and Morris jones | ||
| Tim Kearsley | Southern Maryland Astronomical Society | ||
| BigMailer.io | David McDavid | sponsored link: Email marketing for franchises. | ||
| Bert Stevens | Dr. Michael W. Ridenhour | Tiffiny Mansouri | ||
| Thomas Wroblewski | Wolf Creek Observatory | Jnani Cevvel | ||
| Jim Woods | Joseph & Amy Galloway | RASC Ottawa Centre | ||
| Hans Flaatrud | Max Mitchell | LKappukatt | ||
| Eric Rachut |
| Steve Altstadt | ||
| Naperville Astronomical Association | Southern California Desert Video Astronomers | Steve Altic | ||
| Philip Massey | The Wilkersons of Pittsburgh | ||
| William C. Bryson | John Harris | Richard Seely | ||
| Steven Schlagel | Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston | Jane Gnass | ||
| Jay and Maureen Huston of Long Mountain Ranch | Roger Menard | Jerry Spevak | ||
| The Noroads Garage | David ONeill | Victoria woods | ||
| Frank Willburn | UConn Physics | Sate Consulting LLC | ||
| Rob & Theresa Britschgi | Michael Rosolina |
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| Aaron Quick | Jimmy Deetman | ||
| Oleg Rumiancev |
| Roxanne Kamin | ||
| Dave & Robert | Andy Schlei | Christopher Azar | ||
| Don Pensack | David Musser | Dee Jay Randall | ||
| David T. and Jean M. Long | Jim Mazur | Mark Simmons | ||
| Acton Sky Portal | Beth Colyear | Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society | ||
| Mark C. | Kyle Goodwin | ||
| Karen Miller SLC |
| Liang Ming | ||
| David Oesper | Billy and Domitta Gladson | Steven LJ Russo | ||
| Brian M. Carroll | RJH Photography | Mark Manner | ||
| Anthony Scandurra | Tracy Tuttle | Michael Vander Vorst for the San Diego Astronomy Association | ||
| Rhonda Weeks | Ken Sabatini |
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| Brendan Bronzan |
| Chris Webb | ||
| Ace Printing Newfoundland | Mark Hanning-Lee | Ben Lutch | ||
| Matrix Engineering, Inc Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Electrical Engineering | D. Craig Tupper | Nick Lloyd | ||
| Pedro | Glenn Littledale |
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| Kenneth Stallard |
| Yves Barriere | ||
| Rick Evans | John & Cathy Moore | ||
| Ginny Stumborg-Rosin | Buffalo Astronomical Association |
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| Art Gilbert | Texas Astronomical Society | Diego Gomez | ||
| Dave Hasenauer | Brian Combs | Tom Neville | ||
| Tim Povlick Santaluz Observatory | Charles S Morris | ||
| Oscar Echeverri | James Munson | Martin Flynn | ||
| Dr. Barbara G. Harris | Starfront Observatories Discord | Claude Duplessis | ||
| Kevin Abeln | Robert & Elaine White | Bob Taylor | ||
| Derek Archer | Stephen Craig | Herman Zwirn | ||
| A member of the Saint Petersburg Astronomy Club. | Jerome Hollon | Messiernut | ||
| Ekim Unal | James Pond | Bob Pitt | ||
| Birmingham Astronomical Society In memory of Mike Miller |
| Harry Sarber | ||
| John R. Crilly | Stuart Alldritt | Riverside Astronomical Society | ||
| Plumas Lake Observatory | Martin Wilson | Michael Person | ||
| Valley of the Moon Observatory Association | John R. Duchek Ph.D. | Dave LoPresti | ||
| Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club | Carl Roland | Eyes on the Sky | ||
| Frank M. Klicar |
| The Unfrozen Caveman Astronomer | ||
| deepskyobjects.com | Kerrigan Singer and Ridley Singer | Gloucester Area Astronomy Club | ||
| Chris S | Todd Kunioka | Terrence Boyll | ||
| Gailen Marshall | Bob Hillier | Noah Albers | ||
| Colin Orion Chandler | Dick Post | Joel E. Guthals | ||
| Colin Orion Chandler | Donald Hague | Don Lashley | ||
| Astronomical Society of Long Island |
| Mark Biersack | ||
| Northern Cross Science Foundation | Gene and Charlotte Dupree | Leonard Christman | ||
| Kevin & Carmen Kasner | Snake Wash Farms Observatory | Sola Virtus Observatory | ||
| George Palermo | Jeff Alfeld |
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| Dodie Reagan | N3DXW & N3ED | Joseph Geiger | ||
| Bruce C Taylor | Robert & Erika Moon and the IAS | John Rehrig | ||
| Michael Collins | Tom Hoffelder | Juno Porter | ||
| Bill Manley |
| David Young | ||
| Eric Zeiner | Zack Whaley | Jim & Terry Turner | ||
| Michael Pataky | Jim & Lisa McKay | Tim Winkler | ||
| Cameron County Recreation, PA | Hai Du | Steve Cariddi | ||
| Sun City Astronomers | Tom Jaeger | RIP Amigo | ||
| Lauren Rogers | Deep Springs College | Justin Hendricks | ||
| Connor Ness | Gaboury Benoit | Paul D Clarke | ||
| Steve Johnson, PhD | Screech Owl Hill Observatory | Nature Friend Magazine | ||
| Lauren Weiss | Jerel Smith | RASC Halifax Centre | ||
| Joseph Comeau | C. E. Steuart Dewar | David Pettersson | ||
| Mike Clemens | Abhilash Sharma | Uberclock | ||
| Mark Warren | Truman Hopper | BillR | ||
| William Durst | Kevin Wigell | Amanda Fonville | ||
| Allan Fenske | Alexandre Koukarine | Eric Laflamme | ||
| John W. Palmieri | Jon Lawrence | Alan & Pamela | ||
| Jim Davis | Andre Vaillancourt | Patrick Manley | ||
| City Lights Bookstore | Mike Wirths |
Why be a sponsor?
Sponsors are the reason why I can continue to maintain the clear sky charts. I try to thank sponsors by giving sponsored charts more updates, more forecasts, better reliability and more features. I also recognize sponsors on these pages. The complete details of what I do for sponsorship is long, but it is here. One person sponsoring a chart makes those benefits visible to everone.What does sponsorship pay for?
More importantly, sponsorship does not pay for the basic data from which I generate the charts. That data is offered to everyone for free by the Canadian Meteorological Centre though their public web page.Sponsorship does reduce some of the costs of preparing and maintaining thousands of charts, internet access, web hosting, computers, software development, bookkeeping fees, caffeine and ibuprofen.
How to be a sponsor.
No amount is too small. For each us$5.00 (about cad$7.11) I will list your name, for one month, on the clear sky chart of your choice. Sponsorship lasts longer for a larger donation. I also do extra things for sponsored charts including updating them earlier with more data. (I ask more from commercial sponsors and do more for commercial sponsors. Email me for details.)There are two ways to sponsor:
- Mail me a check. Please do not use the address printed in the February 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope page 69; it is wrong even with Stuart's correction. Instead, please Email
me for the correct snail mail address.
US dollar and personal checks are fine. Note that postage to me from the USA is us$1.50 and from Canada is can$1.07.
A check gets the greatest amount of your sponsorship to me but is slow.
- Or click on a button below to send money from your Paypal account or credit card.
All payments are HST/GST included (if applicable). Yes, silly tax rules require me to keep repeating that. See my Tax Rant.
- what name you'd like credited on this page. I can also link your web page, if you like.
- The names of any clear sky chart pages you'd like your sponsorship to be acknowledged on.
How much does it cost?
There is no minimum sponsorship amount. I am grateful for any support. Also, I do not repeatedly dun past sponsors for more money. I may email a sponsor once at the end of their sponsorship.But to be fair to all sponsors, I acknowledge sponsors on this page, and on chart pages they've chosen to support, for a time proportional to their sponsorship.